A sketch of a rather cumbersome-looking chastity belt in the ca. 1405 manuscript of "Bellifortis", a late 14th-century book on military technology by retired soldier Kyeser von Eichstadt (born 1366).
For discussion, see The Girdle of Chastity: A Medico-Historical Study by Eric John Dingwall.[1]archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Original Latin description:
Florentiniarum hoc bracile dominarium, ferreum et durum, ab antea sic reseratum
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